I was always influenced by language.

Writing children's books gives a writer a very strong sense of narrative drive.

I concentrate on the lives of individuals whom the reader comes to know and feel with intimately.

I would like people to come into my Dreamworld and then choose to stay.

As individuals, we are shaped by story from the time of birth; we are formed by what we are told by our parents, our teachers, our intimates.

Reread, rewrite, reread, rewrite. If it still doesn't work, throw it away. It's a nice feeling, and you don't want to be cluttered with the corpses of poems and stories which have everything in them except the life they need.

If we understand the past, we are more likely to recognise what is happening around us.